Tokyo Demo Fest is a demoparty which will be held on Feburary 20th - 21st, 2016. Watch seminars and demos while making your demos in the afternoon, and then compete! For sofa sceners, information about the live streaming page will be posted soon.

Results!

The official Tokyo Demo Fest 2016 competition results can be found here.

Location

The event will be held in a hall roughly the area of medium-sized European demoparties.
Needless to say, the partyplace features a massive screen for showing productions.
Also, it will now be possible to bring food and drinks from outisde, so you can enjoy demos while having, and maybe sharing, delicacies.
(That being said this is a demoparty, not a cooking party, so please don't bring your stove or microwave. :) )

Seminars

Studio Session with FL1NE (Something about music production)

Do you enjoy making music?
I'm FL1NE, previously known as T_S.
This year it looks like I will give another seminar about music.
I will begin with how to make electronic music similar to EDM, followed up with a question and answer session.
Let's make music together! Version 2016

How Ray Tracing Conquered Cinematic Rendering

abstract:
Monte Carlo path tracing is now the dominant rendering technique in film VFX, animated films,
commercials and pre-rendered videogame content. This marks the end of an era.
In this talk I will provide some historical context on how studios transitioned from rasterization-based pipelines,
describe the key benefits that motivated this transition, and discuss some of the challenges that still lie ahead
in the never-ending quest for increased detail and visual realism.

bio:
Marcos is the founder of Solid Angle, where he leads the development of the Arnold path tracing renderer.
Prior to that, Marcos was a visiting Software Architect at Sony Pictures Imageworks, a visiting researcher
at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies under the supervision of Dr. Paul Debevec,
and also consulted at various CG studios around the world. Marcos is a frequent speaker at SIGGRAPH, FMX and EGSR. His favorite sushi is engawa.

Defold: a new platform for demoscene?

ASD tests the waters with Android development and creates a small new demo,
using a new environment called "Defold" by well known games company King.
Defold allows for fast content creation and deployment on a number of platforms.
In this presentation we look into all the challenges of the task - from conception to rendering on a mobile phone -,
and discuss the potential of using this new tool for future demoscene projects by others.

PICO-8

Joseph White (of Voxatron fame) presents PICO-8, his latest creation: a
fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other
programs. PICO-8 is based on Lua and has a built-in editor for code,
music, sounds, sprites, and maps. In this seminar, you will learn about
the background and design of PICO-8, followed by a short live coding and
tracking session.

Compos

Please see the timetable for the deadlines and when the competitions will be held. Visitors will be able to submit their entries through the party intranet.

Remote entries are allowed and will be voted upon along with all other entries submitted at the party place, but you can win a prize only if you can attend the ceremony. If you are interested in submitting a remote entry, please send a mail to organziers.

Compo Rules

General Rules

The work must be your own original creations. No arranged or covers of others works without permission will not be accepted.

All entries will be published to the demoscene sites Scene.org and Pouet.net. If you do not give us permission to publish your work, your entry will not be shown at the party.

All entries must work on the compo machine.

All entries must work with the projection system at the party.

All demos are required to exit immediately upon pressing either the Esc key or Alt-F4.

The latest video drivers available at the time will be installed on the compo machine.

The latest DirectX 11 runtime will be installed on the compo machine.

The DirectX SDK will NOT be installed -- only the runtime.

The latest .NET Framework 4.5 runtime will be installed on the compo machine.

Any folders below the "Library" folder (My Pictures, My Music, My Documents, etc.) will be deleted from the compo machine.

No extra runtimes or libraries will be installed on the compo machine.

DOS, Linux, or Mac demos are not supported and will not be run in a VM. However, you can submit them to the Wild compo (along with a video capture, please).

If any of the above requirements are not met, or if the organizers detect unfair play, then that entry will be disqualified.

Please include at least a screenshot of your entry to be used during the voting, and for publishing.